Utility functions

1.
(نبى)

نَبَاَ عَنِ الضَّرِيبَةِIt(a sword)recoiled, or reverted,[or glanced off, or away,]from the thing struck with it, without penetrating, or without effect;(TA;)returned from it without cutting;(Mṣb;)took no effect upon it;(Ṣ;) syn. كَلَّ. (Ḳ.)

verb form: 1. ― (signification - A2)

نَبَاَIt(the edge of a sword)would not cut; was blunt.(TA.)

verb form: 1. ― (signification - A3)

نَبَاَ عَنِ الشَّىْءِIt(the sight)recoiled, or reverted, from the thing; was repelled by it;(Ṣ,* Ḳ,* TA;) syn. تَجَافَى(TA) and كلّ. (Ḳ.)

verb form: 1. ― (signification - A4)

نَبَا عَنِ الشَّىْءِIt(nature)recoiled, flinched, shrank, or was averse, from the thing, or shunned it, and would not accept it.(Mṣb.)

verb form: 1. ― (signification - A5)

نَبَا جَنْبُهُ عَنِ الفِرَاشِ ‡ His side did not rest, or was restless, or uneasy, upon the bed:(Ḳ, TA:)it shrank from it.

verb form: 1. ― (signification - A6)

نَبَاIt(a saddle)was unfirm, or unsteady; not firm, or steady, in its place.(TA.)